I don’t know whether it’s the hectic pace that this fall seems to have brought to Orchestra Hall, or just the fact that Sarah and I are three years into our Inside the Classics careers at this point, but we’ve … Continue reading →
Wow, you guys! When I put up that little contest that week, I had no idea how many of you would take the time to enter, and I never expected submissions of the quality we got! Good on all of … Continue reading →
Our program this coming week is what a lot of people might call “comfort food” – a good old-fashioned meat-and-potatoes orchestra program featuring a flashy overture, a well-worn concerto, and a proven audience-pleaser of a symphony. Others, of course, might … Continue reading →
Doug McLennan over at ArtsJournal has a blog post up today taking arts organizations to task for not keeping up with other entertainment venues when it comes to customer comfort. “Despite the fact that the average concert hall was many … Continue reading →
A review about the opening concert of the Ravinia Festival caught my eye, primarily because a majority of content was not about the performance itself; critic Lawrence Johnson spends most of the article panning the use of the large video … Continue reading →
Our concerts this week are being billed as “A Fleezanis Farewell,” not because our esteemed concertmaster is leaving us just yet, but because this will be the last week that she solos with us before her move to Indiana this … Continue reading →
If you were with us at Orchestra Hall tonight for the Jay Greenberg symphony, here’s your chance to tell us what you thought of the show. Did you like the video component? Was the balance between interview and our usual … Continue reading →
Whenever marketing types sit around a table and start talking about ways to attract a wider range of concertgoers (by which they generally mean “people under 40,”) the subject of concert start times is bound to come up. Why does … Continue reading →
Composer Nico Muhly has been playing a fun and snarky game with violist Nadia Sirota (an old friend of mine, for the record) over at his blog. He calls the game “Fix This Concert,” and it was inspired by the … Continue reading →
In a recent New Yorker article )”Why So Serious?”), Alex Ross discusses the ritualization and relative rigidity of the format of modern-day classical music concerts. Included are the usual suspects: the overture-concerto-intermission-symphony format; the insistence on silence between movements of … Continue reading →
